Women in the Smart World Symposium

Biography

Runhe Huang earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics in the UK in 1993. After seven years at the University of Aizu, she joined Hosei University, Japan, in 2000. Becoming a full professor in 2003, she has led the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence. She chaired the Computer Science Department from 2008 to 2010 and served as chair and vice-chair for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Smart World Technical Committee from 2019 to 2022.

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Antonella Guzzo is an IEEE Senior Member and Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria, where she is actively engaged in teaching and holds several institutional positions, including Department Quality Assurance Representative.

A co-founder of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and a member of the IEEE Working Group for the XES standard, she has served in key leadership roles—including General Chair, Workshop Chair, and Session Organizer—for top international conferences such as ICPM, IEEE BigData, IJCAI, and AIxIA.

Her research spans Artificial Intelligence, Process Mining, Federated Learning, Blockchain, and Radiomics, supported by over 70 research papers and more than 5,000 citations. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, and leads major national and European research initiatives, including the PNRR FAIR, RADIOAMICA, and BEiNG-WISE projects.

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Binbin Zhou, Associate Professor at Hangzhou City University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Computer Systems Engineering, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial International Scientific Research Cooperation Base. Her main research areas include brain-computer intelligence, multimodal representation, artificial intelligence and urban computing. She has presided projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation and participated in several National Natural Science Foundation and National Key R&D Program projects. She has published over 50 academic papers in prestigious journals and conferences including ACM, IEEE Transactions, and top CCF-A conferences such as CVPR, ICML and IJCAI.

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Dr. Rosy Luo is CEO of Raygen Innovation and an NVIDIA Omniverse Community Ambassador. She leads an international community advancing AI innovation among women and young builders. She has co-organized programs with Google EAC and Google Cloud on empowering women and young builders from idea to product. She also served as a panelist at the 2024 NVIDIA Inception Showcase Shetech Panel on women's leadership in the new industrial revolution, alongside Maggie Liu (NVIDIA Global Vice President) and Shen Ye (Temasek China Vice President).

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Lisa Carter earned a PhD in Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a member of the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at Athabasca University, Canada, and has held several leadership roles, most recently serving over two five-year terms as the inaugural Dean of FST. She has also led provincial and national organizations dedicated to advancing women in STEM. As a Board member for Alberta Science and Technology, she supports the recognition and promotion of excellence in science and technology among researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. Throughout her career, she has championed building opportunities for future generations in STEM.